An 18-year-old military recruit forced to shower with biological males as part of the Biden administration’s transgender policies is complaining about being placed in an “extremely uncomfortable position.”
The report was first raised at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday. The girl is afraid to speak out of fear it will harm her career, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) told Fox News Digital in an interview.
Her options were slim and included resigning from her early-career position.
It was believed raising the matter in a complaint could have harmful impacts on the new recruit’s military career.
According to Rounds, the military recruit, 18, is complaining about being forced to sleep in between “two individuals who were supposedly changing from male to female.”
The girl also has to shower with the individuals and reported significant distress about the matter.
The individuals housed with the 18-year-old had initiated chemical interventions to change genders, but without having reassignment surgery, their genitalia were fully intact.
Rounds said heard about the matter from the attorney general of the South Dakota National Guard.
“He had contacted our office very concerned about the information he had received from the recruit,” Rounds said. “The respect that this young recruit should have received and the privacy that she should have had, she was being deprived of.”
The Pentagon released a statement to Fox News Digital, which said,
“DoD policy is that all Service members must be treated with dignity and respect. We would encourage any troop who’s feeling uncomfortable or has concerns about privacy in shared spaces to work through their chain of command. Commanders may employ reasonable accommodations to respect the privacy interests of Service members.”
As for the girl’s recourse for the discomforting living situation, the senator said “her options were not good.”
“She could have basically resigned or stepped away. She could have started over again. But nonetheless, it was an extremely uncomfortable position. And I think this is one of the reasons why we’re not meeting our recruitment goals now,” he said.
When asked whether other women in the military may be experiencing similar discomforting scenarios due to the transgender policies in place, Sen. Rounds pointed to the Biden administration’s failure to meet recruitment goals.
The “recruitment crisis” is partially due to Biden’s “woke agenda that we now see coming down by executive order,” Rounds said. . . . . (read more on Fox News)
This is from the Army’s transgender training, which prioritizes the transgender person over the normal person. No wonder the Army missed its recruitment goal. (Click to enlarge graphic)
I’m thankful for Senator Tuberville and his position with the military regarding woke ideology
Phil Bail, LtCol, USAF, retired